So while Ariel was out of town, Kathleen and I attended the awards ceremony for the Long Island Junior Bowling Association, which has over 4000 young bowlers in its membership.
Turned out it was a good thing we did. Ariel won a trophy, which we accepted on her behalf, for highest scoring over the season in her category (Handicap All Events, Junior Girls). There were only ten categories, so basically she placed as one of the top young bowlers in Long Island.
Anyone who says “size doesn’t matter” hasn’t gotten a load of this trophy. It’s almost as big as Caroline. A couple of kids in the ten-and-under crowd could barely carry theirs. This should be a really nice incentive for Ariel’s future athletic endeavors. As soon as Kath’s computer is up and running, we’ll run a picture of Ariel holding the trophy on the website.
PAD
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Congrats to Ariel!
It’s never too early to start thinking about it, so here’s the link to a listing of colleges with bowling scolarships:
http://www.bowlingmembership.com/PDF/smart_colleges.pdf
Congratulations to Ariel!
Groovy!
Congrats to Ariel.
Groovy!
Congrats to Ariel.
Groovy!
Congrats to Ariel.
Impressive… most impressive. Very cool! (Was Ariel disappointed that she missed the ceremony?)
Woohoo Ariel!
Also glad to hear she apparently got home safe 🙂
Was Ariel disappointed that she missed the ceremony?)”
A little, but it couldn’t be helped. The plans for her going down to Florida and visiting with her sisters were in place for months before we even knew the date of the ceremony…plus we didn’t know in advance that she was getting it. Besides, she wound up having the time with her sisters plus she still gets the trophy and she didn’t have to wait in a crowded Knights of Columbus hall for three hours.
PAD
That’s awesome news.
I second the call to look into scholarships. There are many that go uncollected every year for lack of people applying and some are amazingly specific–if there is one for female bowling children of Jewish creative writers I would not be at all surprised.
1Hello, Mr.David, could you IM me? I’m a senior in high school and have to do a project about you. I sent an e-mail to you yesterday about it. I really need your help, sir. Thankyou.
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A big honkin’ congrats to Ariel for winnin’ the big honkin’ bowlin’ trophy!
1Great job, Ariel.
Sorry, didn’t mean to post that twice.
Congratulations!
-Rex Hondo-
Three cheers!
Well, when you put it that way, Mr. David (re: what she was doing during the ceremony) – sounds like Ariel won all the way around! Good for her.
Perhaps Ariel should go out to South Dakota and compete for a *really* big bowling trophy…
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/20/bowling.tournament.ap/index.html
(Winner of this tournament, as determined by who shoots closest to their average, gets the bowling alley itself. Now that’s a big trophy.)